Cops search for 2 in attempted child abduction

Chicago police were searching for two men wanted in the attempted abduction of two children Saturday in the North Side's Rogers Park neighborhood.

About 11:50 a.m., two young boys reported that an older blue cargo van with tinted rear windows and rusted wheel wells pulled alongside them as they were walking in an alley near Warren Park.

"The driver of the van told the boys to get into the van and the boys ran home and reported the incident to their parents," police said this afternoon in a community alert.

One of the men, the driver, is described as white, 30 to 40, balding with salt and pepper hair and very overweight, police said. The passenger is described as a Hispanic man, 30 to 40 and heavyset with shaved, dark hair. Police said he also has a slight overgrowth of hair above his lip and was last seen wearing a brown jacket with a T-shirt.

On Monday, a teen girl was standing in front of Chute School at 1400 Oakton St. when a man in a blue passenger van drove up and motioned for her to enter the vehicle, police said. They said the teen refused and went into the school to report the incident to authorities. Last Sunday at about 5:50 p.m., a man in a similar blue van approached two girls as they were walking near Oakton Street and Darrow Avenue and called out to the girls to get in his van, police said.

Anyone with information about any of the incidents or the suspects themselves should call Belmont Area detectives, 312-744-8200.